It's All About Dottie (big sigh)

We can tell you now that Dottie is going to be in an AKC Dog Show this coming Saturday! They are having a "Veteran's Class" and Dottie has been entered! Dots' orginal owner/breeder, Dana Wellock, is going to show her. Dana came over yesterday to do Dottie's nails which took forever (at least in my opinion since Dana couldn't pay attention to me if she was doing Dots' nails). Friday Dottie goes to the groomer to have a bath and get her hair done, whatever tha means.


Dana brought her own table and chairs and combed out Miss Dottie's hair.

Then Dana filed Dottie's nails until they were just right.

Check out the attention to detail.

Dana even cut the hair on Dottie's feet and between her pads.

Look at the paw-nicure! Lovely toes'es. The hair is cut so the feet's are the breed standard.

The back feet have their hair cut different.

This here is Dana and her Dottie girl after the paw-nicure!

And this Dottie right before her nap. The pawnicure was very tiring.

So Miss Dottie goes in the show ring Saturday morning at 8am! Mum and Dad will take her over at 6:45am so Dana can do some final grooming and then it is into the ring and hopefully the winner's circle. Keep your paws crossed!

I would just like everyone to take note that I let Dottie have this blog entry. This is, after all, MY BLOG!

 ~ Dozer Edwards

Dottie's Mum Came for a Visit

As many of our readers know, Dottie in her former life, was an AKC Champion show dog. Yes, our Dottie! And Dottie's very first Mum found our Mum on Facebook and she emailed that she would come for a visit (how cool is that?).

Dottie's previous owner, Betty, told us that Dottie didn't have a very happy life as a show dog (Mum even pulled out the letter and read it to me) and that Dottie had too many litters. Dottie never said anything otherwise, so we figured it had to be true. Who knew Dottie just isn't much of a conversationalist?

I told Dottie to get up and get ready for the visit but she took a nap
and her tongue snuck out. She gets more like Cooper every day. Seriously.

Anyway, this is Dottie's very first Mum, Dana Wellock. She has been showing dogs since 1978. This is a picture of Dana with Dottie, when the Dot'ster was just a pup!

This is Dottie's certificate showing she was an AKC champion. Yeah, yeah...send in enough box tops and you can get one too. (Mum says that is not true and I am not to say such things.).

Okay, one more shot of Dottie in her show days. Okay enough with that. Let's move on.

So here is Dana! And she brought treats! Houseguests with treats are always welcome in my neighborhood.

Check out my tongue action. Bring on those Treats!!

Dana has her own website at http://www.roundhound.us/ 

So we listened as Dana talked to Mum and it became really apparent that there was something seriously wrong with what Dottie's last owner had told us. We are not sure Betty really understood who Dana was or how she treats her dogs. Dottie started piping up too (she started hogging the conversation, it was embarressing).

First off, Dottie did not spend her entire life in kennels and crates and she did not have too many litters. Dottie got to visit lots and lots of places, that's what she got to do! She went to shows but she got to play and got loved on by Dana all the time. And she only had two litters - okay one litter had 11 puppies but who knew Dottie could hide so many inside her enormous petite tummy?

Dana brought another friend..can you guess who? Yes, it was Emily from Dreameyce Studios! Can you believe it? Well I couldn't and I visit her blog every day!

Mum loves Emily's photography (Oregon Pet Photography) - if you visit, check out the dog galleries and see the dog sitting on the top of the fence post. I tried to get Cooper to do that but Mum stopped us because she said the vet bills would go through the roof if he fell. (And the problem with that would be.....?)

This is Emily giving me a rub down. I asked her to leave her family and run away with me, but she said she couldn't do that. So I asked her if she would at least take Cooper home with her and she said I would miss him. (She is soooo wrong but I didn't want to point that out on our first date).

Before you knew it, Dana and Emily had to leave. Mum said they will come for another visit or we will go see them. Mum is going to go to the Linn County Fairgrounds tomorrow to watch Dana show a dog in the AKC Dog show - she'll be in Cardigan Corgi class.

And no, I do not get to go...(big sigh)...I never get to go anywhere.

Dottie didn't do her usual pacing tonight and was really calm. She just laid down by Mum's chair and went to sleep. I think Dottie was really glad to see her first Mum, Dana, today. I know I was.